Thought Provoking Quotes

Sometimes I wonder if we're all a little like Harold (a rooster). Real life carries on around us while we strut around in our own yards, thinking we're the ones in charge of things.

~ Suzanne Woods Fisher

If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side??

~ Anand Neelakantan

If you have to think about relaxing, are you really relaxing?

~ Janice Thompson

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

~ Ayn Rand

I have watched the tears of frustration of a stroke victim or the autistic child who struggles to communicate a need or thought, but no one understands. Eventually, the soul grows quiet and gives up. At every stage of life, and in every circumstance, we search for someone who understands what we are going through.

~ Donna Mull

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

~ Karen Marie Moning

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

~ Elizabeth Chandler

A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.

~ Mathew Barrett Gross

Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling, Lady Butler contemplated, How odd it is that a room filled with millions of words can be so silent.

~ Lance Taubold

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

~ Michele Mcknight Baker

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

~ Veronica Roth

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

~ Bradley Bowman

Sometimes when we’re standing at the edge, we don’t need anyone to talk us down...we just need a push.

~ Buffi Neal

At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?

~ Buffi Neal

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

~ Norton Juster

It is uncertain where Death will await you,there expect it everywhere.

~ Seneca

Is a dream the ultimate freedom, or the ultimate prison?

~ Buffi Neal

No one has yet tested the pencilTo see how many words it can write

~ Xi Chuan

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

~ Rebecca Solnit

The glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armor against Fate.Death lays his icy hand on kings...

~ James Shirley

I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on the island....Lord of the Flies what about it....You know how you said it wasn't a true measure of humanity since there were no girls and you wondered how it would be different if there had been girls...Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's watching them so they can be who they really are.

~ Libba Bray

There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

~ Libba Bray

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

~ John Clellon Holmes

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

~ Lawrence Lessig

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

~ Tom Franklin

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

~ Alan Mccluskey

Truth, like diamond, has many facets.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture—it won’t accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy’ time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

~ Edward B. Hanna

Many people pretend to be in thought, proving thought to be a beautiful thing. But the bald man doesn’t need a comb, the tiger doesn’t need weapons, the fool doesn’t need thought. The person with no needs is practically a sage, but the sage also needs to count the rivers across the iron bridge to pass the time. This is the difference between the sage and the fool.

~ Xi Chuan

It's like a lion at the door;And when the door begins to crack,It's like a stick across you back;And when your back begins to smart,It's like a penknife in your heart;And when your heart begins to bleed,You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed.

~ John Newberry

Don't give yourself a limit and you may discover you don't have one.

~ Veronica Blade

All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

~ Robert E. Lee

We can fly!“We can become butterflies!“There’s nothing at the topand it doesn’t matter!”As he heard his ownmessage he realized howhe had misread the instinctto get high.To get to the “top” hemust fly, not climb.

~ Trina Paulus

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

~ Camron Wright

Once you are a butterfly,you can really love – thekind of love that makes anew life. It’s better than allthe hugging caterpillars cando.

~ Trina Paulus

That’s what the prom is—St. Patrick’s Day for the young.

~ Tim Tharp

It's ironic..here is life passing, like clouds drifting over the sky, yet they don't see what's in front of them. They believe there is something more substantial going on in that little screen in their hands.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

Hasn’t stopped us before. And besides, if they wanted to kill us, we’d be dead by now and would be having an entirely different conversation. I wonder if I’d still be mad at you, or if we would talk in words or pictures. Maybe in smells. That would be cool.” -Janco

~ Maria V. Snyder

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!It only looked good from the bottom.

~ Trina Paulus